EVM Program Controls Lead-EN
About This Role
Who We Are: CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.
Summary
Applicant will work as the lead on our Earned Value Management (EVM) Team. This person will be considered the EVMS and Cost/Schedule Integration Subject Matter Expert.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Guide the development of program Cobra cost and schedule baseline.
- Provide guidance and leadership on best practices in regard to weekly/monthly IMS updates and maintenance.
- Provide insight and guidance regarding EVM System Description updates in support of EIA 748 Guidelines.
- Perform routine EVMS Surveillance and document findings on programs across company sites and business lines.
- Performs special project and studies as required.
- Performs varied program planning, scheduling, and monitoring of an involved nature, such as researching and gathering specific data, i.e. resources, schedule duration, activity constraints, relationships of activities, and interdependencies.
- Provide technical assistance in development, deployment, and implementation of processes, training, and tools in support of Earned Value Management.
- Communicate within and outside of the organization which includes customers or vendors.
- Works to influence others to accept individual or team’s views or practices and changes to concepts, practices, and approaches.
- Communicates with leadership regarding matters of importance to the functional or business area. May conduct briefings with leaders.
- Works under general supervision. May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. May be responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area. May manage projects at this level with responsibility for the delegation of work and the review of others' work product.
- Work consists of making significant improvements of processes, systems, solutions, or products to enhance performance of job area. May develop new concepts or standards.
- Conducts extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems. Problems span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across the function and/or business area.
Qualifications And Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Finance or Engineering with minimum 10 years of prior EVMS experience in a leadership capacity
- DoD/EIA-748 EVM experience: Customer reporting, EVMS processes, etc.
- Experience with EVMS cost and schedule Software (Cobra, MS Project, Deltek Open Plan, Primavera, C-CERT+, etc)
- DCMA EVM Audits and Surveillance participation, IBR support/participation, Program Baseline development, Resource Loaded IMS.
- Accuracy and attention to detail are essential
- Must have good communication skills and be able to work well with others, work independently, and respond to short deadlines.
Preferred Skills
- Deltek Cobra experience
- Deltek Open Plan experience
- Deltek Costpoint experience
- Understanding of Financial Analysis and how it relates to Cost/Schedule Integration Software
- PC skills including Microsoft Project, Excel, Word & Power Point
- Experience with MRP systems
Physical Demands
- Ability to sit down for long lengths of time
- Ability to climb stairs
- Ability to operate a personal computer
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
- Ability to sit down for long lengths of time
- Ability to climb stairs
- Ability to operate a personal computer